# Mother (disambiguation)

A mother is a female parent.
Mother may also refer to:

## Literature

* "Mother" (short story), a 1907 short story by Owen Wister
* Mother (novel), 1906 novel by Maxim Gorky
* "A Mother", a 1914 short story by James Joyce

## Theatre

* Mother (opera), a 1929 opera by the Czech composer Alois Hába
* Mother, a 1938 opera by Valery Zhelobinsky
* Mother, opera by Tikhon Khrennikov
* Mother (play), a 1910 play by Jules Eckert Goodman

## Film
### United States

* Mother (1910 film), an American silent film by the Thanhouser Company
* Mother (1914 film), an American silent film by Maurice Tourneur
* Mother, a 1927 American silent film written by Charles Kerr
* Mother (1996 film), an American film by Albert Brooks
* Mother, a 2006 short film by Sian Heder
* mother!, a 2017 American film by Darren Aronofsky
* Mother, a computer in Alien (1979)

### Europe

* Mother (1926 film), a Russian film by Vsevolod Pudovkin
* Mother (1937 film), a Hungarian film by Johann von Vásáry
* Mother (1955 film), a Soviet film by Mark Donskoy
* Mother (1990 film), a Soviet film by Gleb Panfilov
* Mother (2016 Georgian film), a short film directed by Rati Tsiteladze
* Mother (2016 Estonian film), an Estonian film
* Mother (2017 Spanish film), a short film by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
* Mother (2019 Spanish film), a film by Rodrigo Sorogoyen based on his short film of the same name

### Asia

* Mother, a 1935 Chinese film by Wen Yimin
* Mother, a 1949 Chinese film by Shi Hui (director)
* Mother (1952 film), a Japanese film by Mikio Naruse
* Mother, a 1956 Chinese film by Ling Zifeng
* Mother (1963 film), a Japanese film by Kaneto Shindo
* Mother (1985 film), a Korean film by Park Chul-soo
* Ibunda, a 1986 Indonesian film by Teguh Karya, released internationally as Mother
* Mother (1991 film), an Iranian film by Ali Hatami
* Mother (1999 film), an Indian film starring Rekha
* Mother (2009 film), a South Korean film by Bong Joon-ho
* Mother (2014 film), a Japanese film by Kazuo Umezu
* Mother (2020 film), a Japanese film by Tatsushi Ōmori

## Television
### Series

* Mother (Japanese TV series), a 2010 Japanese television drama
* Mother (Turkish TV series), a 2016 Turkish television drama
* Mother (South Korean TV series), a 2018 South Korean TV series

### Episodes

* "Mother" (Once Upon a Time), a 2015 episode from the TV series Once Upon a Time
* "Mother" (The Flash), an episode from the TV series The Flash
* "Mother", an episode from the sixth season of Fear the Walking Dead
* "Mother...", an episode of Fullmetal Alchemist

### Characters

* Mother (The Avengers), a 1960s British TV character

## Games

* Mother (video game), a 1989 role-playing video game
** Mother (video game series)

## Music
### Bands

* Mother Mother, a Canadian rock band formerly called Mother

### Albums

* Mother (In This Moment album), 2020
* Mother (Kubb album), 2005
* Mother (Luna Sea album), 1994
* Mother (Natalie Maines album), 2013
* Mother (Mother Mother album), 2005
* Mother (Cleo Sol album), 2021
* Mother (Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka album), 1989
* Mother (Jacky Terrasson and Stéphane Belmondo album), 2016
* Mother (Veil of Maya album), 2023
* Mother (Susumu Yokota album), 2009
* Mother, an album by Gilli Smyth
* Mother, an EP by ZZ Ward

### Songs

* "Mother" (Axel Hirsoux song), 2014
* "Mother" (Blondie song), 2011
* "Mother" (Charlie Puth song), 2019
* "Mother" (Danzig song), 1988
* "Mother" (John Lennon song), 1970
* "Mother" (Luna Sea song), 1995
* "Mother" (Meghan Trainor song), 2023
* "Mother" (Pink Floyd song), 1979
* "Mother", by the Afro Celt Sound System from Volume 5: Anatomic
* "Mother", by Ashanti from The Declaration
* "Mother", by Chicago from Chicago III
* "Mother", by Era from Era
* "Mother", by Goldie from Saturnz Return
* "Mother", by Cyndi Lauper from Sisters of Avalon
* "Mother", by Florence + the Machine from How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
* "Mother", by James from Seven
* "Mother", by M-Factor
* "Mother", by Moloko from Things to Make and Do
* "Mother", by The Police from Synchronicity
* "Mother", by Puffy AmiYumi from Mother/Nehorina hahorina
* "Mother", by Ray Charles released as single in 2002
* "Mother", by Red House Painters from Red House Painters
* "Mother", by Tori Amos from Little Earthquakes
* "Mother", from the musical A Chorus Line
* "Mother", by Kacey Musgraves from Golden Hour
* "MOTHER", by Susumu Hirasawa from Technique of Relief
* "M-O-T-H-E-R", by Howard Johnson
* "Mother", by Blonde Redhead from Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
* "Mother", by Porter Robinson from Nurture

## Food and drink

* Mother (drink)
* Mother's, a kosher food brand owned by The Manischewitz Company
* Fermentation starter, sometimes called a "mother", used to start the fermentation process in making various foods and drinks
** Kombucha mother, or SCOBY (for symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast), occurring in the making of kombucha
** "Mother" or "mother dough", a pre-ferment starter dough
** Mother of vinegar

## Other uses

* Mother (advertising agency), a global advertising agency founded in the UK
* Motherboard, the main printed circuit board found in microcomputers
* Mother, prototype of the British Mark I tank
* (Sometimes spelled "moth-er"), a person who studies moths
* Mother superiors, addressed as Mother [religious name]